The gold seekers of '49
Subtitle: a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854.
By: By Kimball Webster, a New England forty-niner; with an introduction and biographical sketch by George Waldo Browne; illustrated by Frank Holland and others.
Contributors: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930.
Publisher: Standard book company
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Manchester, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- California; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon; California -- Gold discoveries
Description: Kimball Webster (1828-1916), a New Hampshire farmer, began his overland journey to California in April 1849, and remained in California and Oregon until 1854. The gold seekers of '49 (1917) uses Webster's diary as the basis for the account of his trip to California via a wagon train from Independence, Missouri, and his first weeks in the Sacramento Valley. A much later narrative picks up the story of his later career in California as a goldseeker on the Feather River and Nelson's Creek mines, 1849-1850; descriptions of Sacramento, Yuba City, and Marysville; and surveying in Oregon, 1851-1854.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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